Well who saw that coming?! Nothing at all, not even daily steps on the stepping machine which is RIGHT THERE! in my face, getting kicked and tripped over on a daily basis.
There have been a few bike rides while I had been staying at my mothers house, and a couple of walks there too, but not a lot happening here to get myself fitter.
I wonder why I want to be so lazy and to stay so unfit...
Friday, October 11, 2019
Thursday, September 19, 2019
Week 6th - 12th September
Fri 6th - Bike ride 3km, took 14 minutes.
Sat -
Sun -
Mon -
Tues -
Wed -
Thurs -
Hmmm, looks like nothing for all that time. It is now the Thursday the 19th!! Will I be fitter By Friday? Ummm, no. Lots less fitter as I just did some steps and only managed 80. Oh dear...
Sat -
Sun -
Mon -
Tues -
Wed -
Thurs -
Hmmm, looks like nothing for all that time. It is now the Thursday the 19th!! Will I be fitter By Friday? Ummm, no. Lots less fitter as I just did some steps and only managed 80. Oh dear...
Friday, September 6, 2019
I Went All The Way...
...To the corner and back. I haven't done that in quite awhile and it showed in the sore legs and the huffing and puffing but I did it anyway.
Learned a few more things:
Learned a few more things:
- Don't spend too much time looking at the cows in the paddock or you could end up in the lake-size puddle on the side of the road. I didn't, 'cause I'm good, but it was close.
- Ducks that suddenly fly up out of the lake-size puddle make me jump.
- I need a bigger bike seat. Or a smaller bum.
- It's going to take awhile before I can get to the dairy and back.
Tuesday, September 3, 2019
Why?
Why do I eat so much crap, sit around too much doing nothing, not get outside and walk up the road, not get on the bike and ride for 5 minutes, not walk into town like I used to, not do anything to make myself fitter so that I can get out and explore and have fun? Why?
It's Tuesday already and I have had 2 days of nothing. Why? What the frig is wrong with me? Do I not really want to "wander the countryside, climb big rocks and swim in lakes and rivers"? I'm pretty sure that I do want to do those things and I would like to not half-kill myself in the process. I'd like it to be fun and not a strain on the ol' ticker. I'd like for the rest of the group to not have to stop or slow down and cater to me...In no way do I ever expect to be able to run up Bluff knoll and maybe even walking it again is now beyond me but smaller rocks, paths through the bush, wide lakes and dams...That could all be fun, so why don't I get fit enough to do it all? Or fit enough to do some of it even? Ha, dunno.
I know an 86 year old woman that goes for multiple rides on her bike every day, another woman only a couple of years older than me that can walk and ride for miles/hours. Someone else started bikeriding and is now up to 50km a time, a younger person that not long ago had emergency surgery but is now walking more than me...What do these people have inside their head that I don't seem too? Dunno.
I have a few choices.
What would be your choice? What will be mine...
It's Tuesday already and I have had 2 days of nothing. Why? What the frig is wrong with me? Do I not really want to "wander the countryside, climb big rocks and swim in lakes and rivers"? I'm pretty sure that I do want to do those things and I would like to not half-kill myself in the process. I'd like it to be fun and not a strain on the ol' ticker. I'd like for the rest of the group to not have to stop or slow down and cater to me...In no way do I ever expect to be able to run up Bluff knoll and maybe even walking it again is now beyond me but smaller rocks, paths through the bush, wide lakes and dams...That could all be fun, so why don't I get fit enough to do it all? Or fit enough to do some of it even? Ha, dunno.
I know an 86 year old woman that goes for multiple rides on her bike every day, another woman only a couple of years older than me that can walk and ride for miles/hours. Someone else started bikeriding and is now up to 50km a time, a younger person that not long ago had emergency surgery but is now walking more than me...What do these people have inside their head that I don't seem too? Dunno.
I have a few choices.
- I could sit on the lounge and eat cake/crap with the husband and stay home 'cause I will be fatter and more unfit than I am now and not want to do anything and stop thinking about all the wandering, rocks, lakes and adventures that I think I want to do.
- I could keep doing what I am doing and not see enough improvement in fitness so I will whinge about it all being too hard so not do anything and end up doing number 1 by default.
- I could eat less crap and move more and go on a weekly adventure until the adventure is that rock, lake or whatever I want.
- I could eat better, move more, then move more again, then again...
What would be your choice? What will be mine...
Friday, August 30, 2019
Week 30 August - 5th September
It's Friday again. Am I fitter than I was last week. Lets just say yes and be done with it.
A new thing is going to be "walked on the spot" but will be put down as "wots" because I am too lazy too write out all the letters.
Friday 30th Aug This morning I wots while watching Youtube, 11 minutes. Bikeride this afternoon, yay me! haha. Thought I'd go to the bridge and back which all up is a km but kept riding past to the first white post before turning around and then rode past our driveway up to the first white post...And then...110 steps.
Sat 31st Something, I think...wouldn't have been anything more than steps though, maybe some minutes of wots.
Sunday - 1st Sept - Nothing I "think" I can feel the onset of shinsplints? Something anyway.
Monday - Nothing. As above, sore shins. I have had shinsplints before and it's not nice so "resting"
Tuesday - 200 steps on and off over an hour. 3 min wots.
Wed - I did use the stepper but can't remember how many or how often...
Thurs - 11 min wots this morning. Some whippersnippering which sent me to bed for 2 hours!
Tomorrow is Friday. I don't feel fitter, stronger or healthier. But I am not moving enough, I am eating too much crap still and I am not eating enough vegetables. Maybe next week.
A new thing is going to be "walked on the spot" but will be put down as "wots" because I am too lazy too write out all the letters.
Friday 30th Aug This morning I wots while watching Youtube, 11 minutes. Bikeride this afternoon, yay me! haha. Thought I'd go to the bridge and back which all up is a km but kept riding past to the first white post before turning around and then rode past our driveway up to the first white post...And then...110 steps.
Sat 31st Something, I think...wouldn't have been anything more than steps though, maybe some minutes of wots.
Sunday - 1st Sept - Nothing I "think" I can feel the onset of shinsplints? Something anyway.
Monday - Nothing. As above, sore shins. I have had shinsplints before and it's not nice so "resting"
Tuesday - 200 steps on and off over an hour. 3 min wots.
Wed - I did use the stepper but can't remember how many or how often...
Thurs - 11 min wots this morning. Some whippersnippering which sent me to bed for 2 hours!
Tomorrow is Friday. I don't feel fitter, stronger or healthier. But I am not moving enough, I am eating too much crap still and I am not eating enough vegetables. Maybe next week.
Week 23rd - 29th August
Well it's Friday again...Am I fitter than last week? Who knows, not me. I presume I must be because I am doing more than I was but I just don't feel fit, healthy and raring to go...And though I am sometimes getting on the stepper I am not doing anything else and I am eating way too much crap. As I do... Maybe I need to start recording the food I eat as well, we'll see how that goes.
I will keep writing down what steps I do on the stepper and any other stuff I do, like walking, bushwalks, bike ride,
Friday 23rd - 110, 110, 110 so 3 times up until 12:10. 100 steps at 5pm.
Saturday - No steps at all today but...did go out with daughter T so got some walking in. It wasn't a set walk though because the walk along a lake that I "knew" was there...wasn't. Who would have guessed that!! We ended up out at Myalup, did some walking, running, playing with the 3 year old there then drove to the caravan where we did the 500 metre walk down to the beach, ran/walked along the beach a tiny way then the walk up the hill to the caravan. I ended up pushing the 3 year old in the pram up the steepest bits while T carried the little light baby.
Sunday - 100. Walked for 25 min pushing the pram, not fast but I'm taking it.
Monday - Hmm, I really have to fill this in daily otherwise I forget. Hopefully I did do something.
Tuesday - Can't remember, some steps so I will claim 100!
Wednesday - 50 steps then later on another 110.
Thursday - Husband was still in bed at 6 so instead of stepper I walked on the spot for 7 minutes, then an hour later when I didn't much care if the squeaking stepper annoyed him I did 120 steps.
Not a lot this week, no bike rides but a short bushwalk and a walk pushing the pram...it all counts I suppose. The stepper isn't getting easier but maybe I am not using it often enough...
I will keep writing down what steps I do on the stepper and any other stuff I do, like walking, bushwalks, bike ride,
Friday 23rd - 110, 110, 110 so 3 times up until 12:10. 100 steps at 5pm.
Saturday - No steps at all today but...did go out with daughter T so got some walking in. It wasn't a set walk though because the walk along a lake that I "knew" was there...wasn't. Who would have guessed that!! We ended up out at Myalup, did some walking, running, playing with the 3 year old there then drove to the caravan where we did the 500 metre walk down to the beach, ran/walked along the beach a tiny way then the walk up the hill to the caravan. I ended up pushing the 3 year old in the pram up the steepest bits while T carried the little light baby.
Sunday - 100. Walked for 25 min pushing the pram, not fast but I'm taking it.
Monday - Hmm, I really have to fill this in daily otherwise I forget. Hopefully I did do something.
Tuesday - Can't remember, some steps so I will claim 100!
Wednesday - 50 steps then later on another 110.
Thursday - Husband was still in bed at 6 so instead of stepper I walked on the spot for 7 minutes, then an hour later when I didn't much care if the squeaking stepper annoyed him I did 120 steps.
Not a lot this week, no bike rides but a short bushwalk and a walk pushing the pram...it all counts I suppose. The stepper isn't getting easier but maybe I am not using it often enough...
Sunday, August 18, 2019
Crooked Brook Forest Walk August 2019
I was feeling too lazy to do steps today but daughter T rang and asked if I was interested in going for a drive...And maybe a walk...so yeah, why not. One of our stops was Crooked Brook Forest where we planned on going for a walk.
But which one? How fit were we feeling? How much time did we have? How far could the 3 year old walk? How far could the 30 year old walk while carrying a 6 week old baby? So many questions...We chose not to walk10km...
Lots of wildflowers in the surrounding bush, white ones and yellow ones...
So, the bridge or the fallen down tree? OK, tree bridge it is.
We had a decent walk, got up a bit of sweat, had fun, no yowies were seen, we had fun. We will be back and one day maybe we will do the 10 km walk. We'll see.
But which one? How fit were we feeling? How much time did we have? How far could the 3 year old walk? How far could the 30 year old walk while carrying a 6 week old baby? So many questions...We chose not to walk10km...
We had a decent walk, got up a bit of sweat, had fun, no yowies were seen, we had fun. We will be back and one day maybe we will do the 10 km walk. We'll see.
Friday, August 16, 2019
Friday 16th - 22nd August.
Friday 16th Was going to aim for 150 as a minimum this week but my legs hurt and I'm a sook so that didn't happen this morning. I did 100 and then 100 more 10 minutes later and will try for another 100 later on this morning. I will also take the Magnesium.
Saturday - I did a basic 100 after my morning coffee but nothing else that day. Should have, didn't...
Sunday - 9 oclock already and nothing so far. Husband is home, it's cold, I can't be fagged...daughter rang and we went on an adventure, short bush walk at Crooked Brook Forest. Good fun. But no steps.
Monday - No steps again, until 9pm when I finally did 100.
Tuesday - Feeling pretty good today but the stepper was stiff, managed 110 then 100 10 minutes later. It's nearly 5pm, tried again but only got to 50 before I gave up.
Wednesday - 110 after coffee but wow, legs hurt! I thought it would get easier but it hasn't, maybe I need to do it more often...
Thursday - 110 this morning but felt blah all day and nothing else.
AM / PM
Friday - 100, 100 / 100
Saturday - 100
Sunday - Bushwalk, no stepping.
Monday - / 100
Tuesday - 100,100 / 50
Wednesday - 100, 100
Thursday - 100
I thought I'd be feeling better and fitter by now but it's all too much effort and very little fun. Daughter has suggested that we do more regular bushwalks and I think that would be good so we will get a list of some walks not too far from home and see what we can do.
Tuesday, August 13, 2019
Friday 9th - Thursday 15th August 2019
Where does the time go? I know I slacked off, no surprises there, but maybe a bikeride or 2 since last post. Maybe...
What I have done though is join a Messenger group with a couple of other people and that is kinda motivating. And 2 weeks ago I brought the stepper inside. Again. Parked it in front of the TV. Again. Difference is that this time I am actually using it. I am definitely better than any other time that I have had it inside anyway so here's hoping I keep it up.
Day 1 - 30 steps.
So the first day I struggled to get to 30 in the morning after coffee. Next day was the same but over the week gradually increased the amount until I thought to start recording the amounts so I knew for sure if I was improving...
AM / PM
Friday 9th - 100
Saturday - 100 /20 /80
Sunday - 100 /20
Monday - 150 /50 / 50
Tuesday - 100 /50 / 60
Wednesday - 200 /100 /100
Thursday - 110/100 /100 / 100
So from 30 in 1 go in the mornings I have increased to a minimum of 100 in 1 go in the mornings with an extra session or 2 in the afternoon / evening. Sometimes it seems quite doable but other times it's a struggle to get to 100, I hurt and puff too much...There are also the odd times I get on it during the day and do maybe 20 or 30, I will remember to write these down eventually. Maybe...
I am taking Magnesium most days as well as I know that helps muscles recover.
Definitely going to be fitter by Friday this week.
What I have done though is join a Messenger group with a couple of other people and that is kinda motivating. And 2 weeks ago I brought the stepper inside. Again. Parked it in front of the TV. Again. Difference is that this time I am actually using it. I am definitely better than any other time that I have had it inside anyway so here's hoping I keep it up.
Day 1 - 30 steps.
So the first day I struggled to get to 30 in the morning after coffee. Next day was the same but over the week gradually increased the amount until I thought to start recording the amounts so I knew for sure if I was improving...
AM / PM
Friday 9th - 100
Saturday - 100 /20 /80
Sunday - 100 /20
Monday - 150 /50 / 50
Tuesday - 100 /50 / 60
Wednesday - 200 /100 /100
Thursday - 110/100 /100 / 100
So from 30 in 1 go in the mornings I have increased to a minimum of 100 in 1 go in the mornings with an extra session or 2 in the afternoon / evening. Sometimes it seems quite doable but other times it's a struggle to get to 100, I hurt and puff too much...There are also the odd times I get on it during the day and do maybe 20 or 30, I will remember to write these down eventually. Maybe...
I am taking Magnesium most days as well as I know that helps muscles recover.
Definitely going to be fitter by Friday this week.
Sunday, July 28, 2019
Week from Fri 26th July.
Friday - 3.5 bush wander
Saturday - Nothing.
Sunday - Short, slow walk.
Monday -
Tuesday -
Wednesday -
Thursday -
Saturday - Nothing.
Sunday - Short, slow walk.
Monday -
Tuesday -
Wednesday -
Thursday -
Friday, July 26, 2019
Walk Around The River.
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
I Want To...
I want to get fit enough to wander the countryside, climb big rocks and swim in lakes and rivers.
I have been saying this for years and yet I have not done much about it. I know why, too lazy, but why?
But I am wanting to do things now, wanting to go places, wanting to climb rocks and swim in rivers.
This rock. https://parks.dpaw.wa.gov.au/site/granite-skywalk It's only 2 km walk so sounds easy enough. But it is 2 km uphill and lots of people say it is a hard treck so I really do need to get a tad fitter. I have mentioned it to other people and will mention it to more...That way I may actually do something so I can do this.
For this week, I aim walk or ride the DT, and to be a bit fitter by Friday...
I have been saying this for years and yet I have not done much about it. I know why, too lazy, but why?
But I am wanting to do things now, wanting to go places, wanting to climb rocks and swim in rivers.
This rock. https://parks.dpaw.wa.gov.au/site/granite-skywalk It's only 2 km walk so sounds easy enough. But it is 2 km uphill and lots of people say it is a hard treck so I really do need to get a tad fitter. I have mentioned it to other people and will mention it to more...That way I may actually do something so I can do this.
For this week, I aim walk or ride the DT, and to be a bit fitter by Friday...
So I went for a ride...
I went for a ride this morning. Couldn't make it past the neighbours driveway so turned around and came home. I kinda "knew" the tyres would be flat even though I had pushed on them before I started so I tried pumping them up with the compressor. Nope, couldn't get the nozzle thing on so I went hunting for a hand pump. Same issue, couldn't get the nozzle thing on. Oh well, I had other stuff to do anyway. But husband comes out and after I explained to him he took a look and straight away saw that the tube nozzle was in the wrong position so he tried turning it. He did the same thing with the tyre on a wheelbarrow last week and that worked a treat but why tyres and tubes should move when on a wheel I have no idea. Anyway he took another look and noticed that there was a slight leak anyway so he put in a new tube for me, sprayed things a bit, checked the chain and gears...and the deadly treadly is ready to go again. So I struggled on and rode up the road and around the corner to the limestone then back home. Now I just need to do it again tomorrow! Edit - And I did!
I did notice that we are getting our own little Gnomesville along that road. Many years ago there was a small stump cut to look like a chair with 2 gnomes near it. Today the were 2 more gnomes, 1 was sitting on a fish. Not a real fish, a concrete fish...Do we have a competition happening? Probably not but the thought made me smile.
I did notice that we are getting our own little Gnomesville along that road. Many years ago there was a small stump cut to look like a chair with 2 gnomes near it. Today the were 2 more gnomes, 1 was sitting on a fish. Not a real fish, a concrete fish...Do we have a competition happening? Probably not but the thought made me smile.
Sunday, June 30, 2019
Thursday, April 25, 2019
Pumped!
Well, hahahaha, here I am again. And there has been no walking or exercise since that last post and that walk around what we call Harvey Dam.
Except for yesterday. Family decided to train it to Perth and go to the zoo. And after 5 hours of walking around there I know I need to start walking and riding again to get fit.
So this morning I pumped up the tyres on the good ol' deadly treadly and went. To the bridge and back so only 1km...Not nearly far enough but if I do it again tomorrow, and then again and again...soon I could be back into it and enjoying it again. But will I? Or have I become such a lazy ol' cow that I wont?...We'll see.
Except for yesterday. Family decided to train it to Perth and go to the zoo. And after 5 hours of walking around there I know I need to start walking and riding again to get fit.
So this morning I pumped up the tyres on the good ol' deadly treadly and went. To the bridge and back so only 1km...Not nearly far enough but if I do it again tomorrow, and then again and again...soon I could be back into it and enjoying it again. But will I? Or have I become such a lazy ol' cow that I wont?...We'll see.
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